I am trying to bring the output from the following descriptives procedure into tempdata.sav, where it will be matched against a file created earlier. The output displayed below (21 rows, and 9 cols (" ", n, range, min, max, sum, mean, std_dev, variance) is precisely what I would like to save in tempdata.sav. The warning issued below is not helpful enough for me to crack it. Phase1_stats.sav has 20 cols (var1 - var20), and clearly doesn't equal the number of cols below (9), but why would it, or should it? I would appreciate any help on this; thanks in advance.
get file='c:\users\bruce\documents\phase1_stats.sav'.
oms
/destination format=sav
outfile='c:\users\bruce\documents\tempdata.sav'.
DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=var1 to var20
/STATISTICS=MEAN SUM STDDEV VARIANCE RANGE MIN MAX.
Descriptives
c:\users\bruce\documents\phase1_stats.sav
Descriptive Statistics
NRangeMinimumMaximumSumMeanStd. DeviationVariance
var162405.00.005.0017546.002.81191.864683.477
var262405.00.005.0017303.002.77291.819173.309
var362405.00.005.0017740.002.84291.816393.299
var462405.00.005.0017128.002.74491.851773.429
var562405.00.005.0017452.002.79681.850843.426
var662405.00.005.0017104.002.74101.850283.424
var762405.00.005.0017367.002.78321.810273.277
var862405.00.005.0017849.002.86041.810703.279
var962405.00.005.0017969.002.87961.886533.559
var1062405.00.005.0017966.002.87921.886203.558
var1162405.00.005.0017435.002.79411.779223.166
var1262405.00.005.0017327.002.77681.931013.729
var1362405.00.005.0017304.002.77311.894593.589
var1462405.00.005.0017371.002.78381.840723.388
var1562405.00.005.0016828.002.69681.848073.415
var1662405.00.005.0017001.002.72451.845603.406
var1762405.00.005.0017404.002.78911.814113.291
var1862405.00.005.0017474.002.80031.831383.354
var1962405.00.005.0017473.002.80021.816553.300
var2062405.00.005.0017876.002.86471.776043.154
Valid N (listwise)6240
omsend.
OMSEnd
Warnings
Stub sizes of all the tables must matchup. OutFile "c:\users\bruce\documents\tempdata.sav".
This command is not executed.
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